Posted on 08/26/2014 3:44:57 PM PDT by afraidfortherepublic
It wasn’t exactly the roaring, adoring, campaign-style crowd President Barack Obama is accustomed to.
On Tuesday, the president spoke to the American Legion’s national convention, facing a crowd of veterans deeply concerned about widespread corruption at the Veterans Administration and the resultant deaths of some veterans awaiting health care.
So when Obama began by lecturing the veterans about cynicism and explaining his most recent foreign policy choices — instead of addressing the VA crisis — the audience clearly wasn’t pleased.
Fox News cameras captured a sea of blank or frowning faces looking silently back at the president as he paused for failed applause line after failed applause line.
Obama’s assertion of the indispensability of American leadership worldwide failed to merit a single clap. And when he outlined the “progress” made in Afghanistan, the president resolutely paused for several agonizing seconds until the veterans provided their tepid support.
He didn’t fare much better once he finally reached the VA scandal, with halfhearted applause accompanying his promises to make things right at the corruption-plagued agency.
“We need to make the system work!” the president declared, as the camera caught one veteran turn skeptically to another, open his mouth as if to speak, then turn back and continue to listen disinterestedly.
can’t watch or listen to the hissing
He truly hates these people.
As a veteran I join with those in the audience in saying, “that was painful”.
Keep it up zero. Just keep it up.
As awkward as when a Republican candidate addresses the NAA Lazy CP.
I just saw a brief clip of obozo on the local tv news, and I can’t quite put my finger on it, but the guy looked really weird, like he had tons of pancake makeup on, and his eyes were darting about. Didn’t even look human.
Junkie president.
Well, I can’t really watch the video for some reason, but it looked like he did his little middle finger salute thing at the very beginning. Classy guy.
What would happen if you sat there flipping the bird the whole time? (other than the audit)
American indispensability?
After finding out air strikes are being or have been carried out with not even a nod in the direction of the U.S.?
After listening to El Presidente say time and again that America CAN’T help solve all the world’s problems (militarily)?
Sorry Obama, you may be able to fool the fools but you CANNOT disguise your contempt for American Exceptionalism
Ollie North was asked to describe how the Veterans received the pResident. He said that the word he would use is “Polite.”
AIDS.
Just remember, the everyone in the audience is a card carrying 0bama drone
looked like obama wasn’t welcome there and obama looked like he didn’t want to be there
What was the deal with his finger to the eye gesture when he took the podium?
It almost looked like he was giving someone the finger.
He is a very strange person.
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